Bottle-wire detacher.



- No. 735,466. PATENTED AUG. 4, 1903.

- f 'P. F. GASSIDY.

BOTTLE WIRE DETAGHER.

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UNITED STAT-ES.

iPatented August 4, 190a.

PATENT FFICE;

PATRICK F. CASSIDY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO BOSTON BOTTLEWIRING AND LABELING COMPANY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS,

A CORPORATION OF MAINE.

BOTTLE-WIRE DETACHER.

QPECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 735,466, dated August4, 1903.

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The object of this invention is to provide a very simple and inexpensivedevice for effecting the quick removal of stopper-fastening wires fromthe necks of empty bottles.

The invention will. be hereinafter fully set forth, and particularlypointed out in the claims. i

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a View in perspective. Fig. 2is atransverse 2o sectional view. Fig. 3 isa plan view.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates a bracket, preferably ofright-angular formation and capable of being readily secured to the edgeof a board or table. This bracket 2 5 has a disk 2, formed with acircumferential groove 3, intersected by two, or it may be three, slots4. Extending centrally from this disk is a guidepost 5, the inner end ofwhich is surrounded by arubber sleeve 6. This post in cross-section issufficiently small to conform to the neck-:openin gs of various bottle ssuch as those used for beer, ginger-ale, &c.

7 7 designate two spring'fingers, preferably made from heavy wire, suchfingers being 3 5 passed through slots 4: and bent at their inn er endsto project into openings of lugs 8 on the back of the disk. Thesespring-fingers are slightly curved, so as to converge toward animaginary point in line with the axial center of 40 post 5, butterminating short of such center beyond the end of the post.

9 is a spring-ring fitting within the circumferential groove 3, with itsends disconnected it and turned outwardly, as at 10, to permit of itsbeing readily turned axially on the disk.

This ring incloses those portions of the springfingers extended throughslots 4:, and thereby Serial No. 151,370. (No model.)

locks them in place, and when turned with its ends on either side of afinger the latter may be readily, removed.

In practice empty bottles from which the stopper-retaining wires havenot been entirely removed are inserted between the ends of the fingersand onto the post 5 and in being forced over the latter the wires areengaged bythe fingers and either severed so as to readily fall from thebottle or sufficiently expanded to allow them to pass over the neckthereof. The bottle upon inward pressure thereon is saved from injury bycontacting with the sleeve 6.

It is obvious that if either of the springfingers should be damaged anew one may be readily substituted and that, if desired, a thirdspring-finger may be secured in the slot shown at the top of the disk,but for all ordinary purposes I have found that two fingers aresufficient.

I claim as my invention- 1. A device of the character described having acentral guide for a bottle and curved or convergent fingers having theirouter ends extended nearly into line with the outer end of such guide,as set forth.

2. A device of the character described having a central post, acushidning-sleeve thereon, and curved or convergent fingers having theirouter ends abouton line with, but extended beyond, the outer end of suchpost, as set forth.

3. A device of the character described comprising a disk having acentral post, springfingershaving their outer ends extended beyond andnearly into line with said post, and means for securing said fingers tosaid. disk, as set forth.

4. The combination with the disk having a circumferential groove, andslots intersecting such groove, of a guide extending centrally from suchdisk, curved fingers passed through such slots and extended attheir'outer ends beyond, and nearlyin line with, said guide, and a splitring fitted in said groove for holding said fingers in said slot,asset'forth.

5. The combination with the bracket having a disk and lugs on the rearof such disk, 'nearly into line with, the outer end of said no thelatter also having a circumferential post, as set forth.grooveandinterseetingslots,of fingers passed In testimony whereof I havesigned this through said slots and engaging said lugs, a specificationin the presence of two subscrib- 5 guide-post extended centrally fromsaid disk, ing witnesses.

a cushioning-sleeve on the inner end of said PATRICK F. GASSIDY. post,and a split ring in said groove for lock- Witnesses: ing said fingers insaid slots, the outer ends MICHAEL FLYNN, of such fingers being extendedbeyond, and TIM CURRY.

